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Funding Resources for the
Visual Arts, Creative Writing or Performing Arts

Many agencies offer funding in support of the arts, whether in the form of awards for completed work, residencies during which artists and writers can make progress on particular projects, internships, apprenticeships, workshops, or funds for travel or exhibition. The following list highlights a variety of programs in the visual arts, creative writing and performing arts:

VISUAL ARTS/MEDIA ARTS

Asian Cultural Council

CEC International Partners/Arts Link

Centrum

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Dartmouth College

Del Mar College

Foothills Art Center

Ford Foundation

Getty Trust

Graphic Arts Information Network

Greenshields Foundation, Elizabeth

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

Institute for International Education

MacDowell Colony

National Cowboy Hall of Fame

National Endowment for the Arts

PBS Online/POV Interactive Web Development Fund

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Tubac Center of the Arts

U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture

University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Bantam Doubleday Dell and Delacorte Press

Camargo Foundation

Centrum

Chesterfield Film Company

Cleveland State

International Reading Association

MacDowell Colony

National Women's Studies Association

New England Theatre Conference/Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award

PBS Online/POV Interactive Web Development Fund

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture

University of Iowa Press

University of Pittsburgh Press

University of Wisconsin Press

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)

Wagner College

    PERFORMING ARTS

Actors Theatre of Louisville

American Film Institute

American Institute of Indian Studies

American Society for Theatre Research

http://www.artspresenters.org/Association of Performing Arts Presenters

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

Art Deadlines List

ArtSource

National Guide to Funding in Arts and Culture. New York: The Foundation Center, 1996.

National Directory of Grants and Aids to Individuals in the Arts, Int'l. Washington DC: WIAL, 1993.

Grants and Awards Available to American Writers. New York: PEN American Center, 1994.